Trap

Museum number:
2-18003
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.844
Description:
One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.
Donor:
Mills College
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Traps (trapping equipment)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Fish trap.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 39 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Nelson, Plate LXX, Fig. 14.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Trap, accession number 2-18003, described as One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Trap, accession number 2-18003, described as One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-18003, described as One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-18003, described as One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trap, accession number 2-18003, described as One section, spruce, elongated cone with funnel shape entrance at larger end. Lashings wound spirally around circumference from small end to mouth. Made with spruce root and shoots.

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